excited - Story 48736 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Jessica’s breath hitched in her throat. "Moving… to California?" she repeated, a nervous laugh escaping her lips. Her best friend, Sophia, was leaving! She gripped her hands together, a sudden burst of warmth flooding her. "That is… truly wonderful, Sophia!"

She felt a strange lightness, like the air around her had suddenly become lighter. Her thoughts raced, imagining Sophia’s new life under the California sun. She would visit. She would absolutely visit.

She began to hum a random tune, tapping her foot on the floor. The world felt vibrant and alive, full of new stories waiting to unfold. She couldn't wait to hear them all.

Emotion: excited

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.21 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.05

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion excited. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 excited stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the excited emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the excited vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.809
`!`	0.564
`excitedly`	0.500
`🤩`	0.491
`!"`	0.466

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.721
`ness`	-0.519
`😞`	-0.424
`grieve`	-0.310
`😔`	-0.300